Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's New York Times Mag azine, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. allows that he finds Nixon more palatable as a President-elect than as a candidate, and concludes: "If Mr. Nixon can really listen to the diversity of ideas, agonies and hopes in this great and turbulent land, he may yet achieve the capacity to move beyond himself and to serve the nation and the world." Columnist Max Lerner, another longtime Nixon critic, wrote sympathetically that the President-elect "will need all the help he can get from all of us," and proposed that his opponents "meet...
Harmony was evident at lower levels too. While the Nixons were occupied with the Johnsons, the President-elect's aides met their counterparts in the White House for briefings, tours and lunch in the basement mess. For the first time, the terms of the 1964 Presidential Transition Act were in force. The act authorizes up to $900,000 for the expenses of the changeover and allows the President to make available extensive facilities, including office space, for his successor's advance party. Johnson went beyond the letter of the law by letting Nixon use his new, heavily armored...
Asked whether Watts has seen economic improvement, Dymally replied that there have been "some visible changes, but no substantive changes." He added that private enterprise has stimulated some economic improvement, but it has done little to erase Watt's deficiencies in housing, health, and education. He denounced President-elect Nixon's proposal of "black capitalism" in the ghetto, saying that it would only provide money for a few "black bourgeois" but "it won't help the masses of people...
...Richard Milhous Nixon became President-elect of the U.S. by the narrowest of margins-so narrow that it may even impede his conduct of the office. At the beginning of his campaign, Nixon held a seemingly unassailable lead. By the time Illinois' 26 electoral votes put him over the 270 mark, it was clear that his lead had been whittled almost to the vanishing point, and that he had come close to the most bitter defeat of his career...
...joking reference to "What's-His-Name" warmed an audience up. The admission that Agnew w.as "not exactly a household word" carried a nice touch of modesty. By the end of the campaign, many Republican strategists wished that Agnew had remained What's-His-Name. The Vice President-elect had become not only a figure of comedy and controversy but also a decided liability. "Sure I think he hurt us," said a Nixon aide on Election...